Comparison of the distribution of citations received by articles published in high, moderate, and low impact factor journals in clinical medicine

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 587-591

  Falagas, M E ^a,b   Kouranos, V D ^a   Michalopoulos, A ^a,c   Rodopoulou, S P ^d   Batsiou, M A ^d   Karageorgopoulos, D E ^a  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bibliographic database; bibliometrics; citation analysis; publication; statistical distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77955801605     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02247.x     Document Type: Article

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